Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

He spiked the dirt, twisted out the deformed rose, tossed it aside. His palms sweated.'Sorry,' Persephone suggested.'Pardon?'She murmured, 'You should say sorry when you kill something.'It took him a moment to realize she meant the rose. 'It was dying anyway.''Dying and dead are different words.'Shamed, Adam muttered an apology....

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girlFrom summer she is made my lovely summer girlI'd love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girlBut I'm never warm enough for my lovely summer girlIt's summer when she smiles, I'm laughing like a childIt's the summer of our lives; we'll contain it for a whileShe holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her handI'd be happy with this summer if it's all we ever had.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Adam mused, “Incorruptus. I never thought anyone would use that word to describe Lynch.” Ronan looked as pleased as a pit viper ever could.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probably shouldn't have been messing around with--Drugs?Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?No. But maybe ritualsDrugs might be better.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

This was like walking the line between dream and sleep. The night-sharp balance of being asleep enough to dream and awake enough to remember what he wanted.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

His face went somber for half a second, and then it dissolved into an absolutely wonderful and fearless laugh. The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. This Ronan knew there was crap in the world, but he was laughing anyway.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Why can’t I do it?” [Isabel] asked….“Do what?”“Just forget about everything. Just go somewhere and get smashed and pretend like there are no problems or consequences. I know why. Because there are still problems and consequences. And going and--and--partying doesn’t make them go away. I feel like I’m the only sane person in the world. I don’t get why this whole world runs on stupidity.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

As Gansey led the way out, Noah said to Ronan, “I know why you’re mad.”Ronan sneered at him, but his pulse heaved. “Tell me then, prophet.”Noah said, “It’s not my job to tell other people’s secrets.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Behind him, he heard Ronan say, I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck off.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

It was easier to tell a hero from villain when the stakes were only life or death. Everything in between gets harder.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed.I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it

~ Maggie Stiefvater

His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

In the sea, Corr’s clumsiness will disappear, his weight cradled by the saltwater. I don’t want to say good-bye. I blink to clear my vision and reach up. I pull off his halter. The ocean is his love and now, finally, he’ll have it. I back out of the surf. There’s a thin, long wail. Corr takes a labored step away from the November sea. And another. He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being. I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend's blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life. I tried to stop her.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I didn't know what to say. It kind of hurt just to look at her, in a way i'd forgotten. Sort of like a splinter - not when you first get it under your skin, but the slow ache after it has been taken out.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl,From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl,I’d love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girl,But I’m never warm enough for my lovely summer girl,It’s summer when she smiles, I’m laughing like a child,It’s the summer of our lives; we’ll contain it for a whileShe holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her handI’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Wie lange braucht man jeden Tag, bis man sich kennt.How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan did not smoke, he preferred his habits with hangovers.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I am a beautiful thing, shaped for fighting.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Kissing's a lot like laughing. If the joke's funny, it doesn't matter how long it's been since you last heard one.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Because it wasn't merely that the trees were speaking to them. It was that the trees themselves were sentient beings, capable of watching their movements. Was it only the trees in this strange wood, or did every tree observe their movements? Had they always been trying to speak to them? There was no way of knowing, either, if the trees were good of bad, if they lived or hatred humans, if they had principles or compassion. They were like aliens, Gansey thought. Aliens that we have treated very badly for a very long time.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

i want to remember

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly shower gel. That sort that normally came in a black bottle and was called something like SHOCK or EXCITE or BLUNT TRAUMA.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!

~ Maggie Stiefvater

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

~ Maggie Stiefvater